PDF Creators Compatible with EFS-Web

10/06/2009 By Leave a Comment

EFS-Web is the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) web-based patent application and document submission system.  I have been filing all my documents electronically since the USPTO started beta testing electronic filing (and I am shocked to see that some law firms still do not use electronic filing).

All documents filed via EFS-Web must be pdfs with embedded fonts, or image-based.  This requires a pdf writer.  According to the USPTO, versions of commercial PDF Writer software that work with EFS-Web include: [Read more...]

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Nvidia Scores Win Against Rambus in Patent Fight

07/15/2009 By Leave a Comment

Rambus replied that the game is hardly over.

via eWeek.com Nvidia Scores Win Against Rambus in Patent Fight.

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Law.com – Federal Circuit Sides With PTO in Dispute Over Rules

03/23/2009 By Leave a Comment

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday in a split decision that the Patent and Trademark Office did not overstep its authority in adopting a set of new rules that some intellectual property lawyers say fundamentally alter patent practice and threaten innovation.

via Law.com – Federal Circuit Sides With PTO in Dispute Over Rules.

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Bilski cited, again, in BPAI rejection

02/02/2009 By Leave a Comment

Method claim 1 does not recite any machine or apparatus or call for transforming an article into a different state or thing. A domain name is simply a series of characters representing the address of a resource, such as a server, on the World Wide Web.

Links: Ex parte Atkin.

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USPTO in 2012: Over 600,000 applications filed, and backlog of 1.4 million

01/22/2009 By Leave a Comment
Patent Applications Filed 1995 to 2012

Source: USPTO 2007-2012 Strategic Plan

The United States Patent and Trademark Office predicts that patent application filings will continue to increase to over 600,000 a year in 2012.  Furthermore, according to their own estimates, there may be a backlog of around 1.4 million patents:

It is an unchallenged reality that the rate at which patent applications are being filed has increased beyond the rate at which the USPTO is presently able to examine them, resulting in an increasing backlog (cases that have not been examined). It is possible that this backlog could approach about 1.4 million by 2012—unless something is done.

Link: USPTO 2007-2012 Strategic Plan.

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